Newsfeeds and papers often seem full of deals where innovative small companies have been acquired for seemingly insane valuations by large corporations. We have all heard of Facebook’s purchase of[...]

Extracted from an Article in Infinite Magazine (see http://www.research-innovation.ed.ac.uk/News/Infinite-magazine) . Until August this year, Edinburgh-based FanDuel held the record of raising more venture capital in a single investment round than any[...]

Article originally appeared in Finextra on 11th March 2016 Is London’s much-lauded fintech scene overhyped? New figures suggest that the value of UK and Ireland financial technology investments grew last[...]

Carduus Limited (“Carduus” or the “Company”), Scotland’s newly established lender to Housing Associations (“RSLs”) has today announced a substantial investment by Bridges Ventures LLP (“Bridges”). Ascendant, the London based corporate[...]

Ascendant, the corporate finance boutique focused on growth businesses, completed its third transaction of 2011 advising EVO Electric Limited (“EVO Electric” or the “Company”) on a direct investment by GKN[...]

ACAL Energy (“ACAL” or the “Company”) has attracted investment from I2BF and Parkwalk. Ascendant, the technology and cleantech focused corporate finance boutique, introduced these investors to ACAL on the fund[...]

Mi-Pay Limited (““Mi-Pay” or “the Company”), a leading processor off payments for the fast-emerging mobile money sector has raised a series “C” investment round of £3 million. Octopus Ventures, one[...]

Newsfeeds and papers often seem full of deals where innovative small companies have been acquired for seemingly insane valuations by large corporations. We have all heard of Facebook’s purchase of[...]

Congratulations for another excellent survey of technology and healthcare executives by SVB (with over 900 respondents). It (http://www.svb.com/innovation-economy-outlook/startup-outlook/uk/) is full of interesting commentary on topics such as how innovation companies are[...]

2015 is nearly done and we thought we would review some of the M&A stats that we collect in the tech sector. With two weeks to go, in 2015 in[...]

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